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#1313322021-11-01
Poor countries at Cop26 concerned by G20’s limited climate progress
The G20 is failing poor and vulnerable countries by not agreeing to a climate plan that would ensure their people’s survival, leading figures at the Cop26 climate talks have said.
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#1313332021-11-01
Queueing chaos outside Cop26 venue as leaders arrive – live
Scenes like this have not been seen at a Cop since the poorly prepared Copenhagen conference in 2009. A crowd of many hundreds, probably at least 2,000 just in the forward bit, gathered at the entrance where there seemed to be no preparation, no attempt to encourage people to queue rather than s ...
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#1313342021-11-01
Call for world leaders to ‘banish ghosts of past’ with Cop26 climate vows
Alok Sharma, the president of the Cop26 climate summit, has called on global leaders to “banish ghosts of the past” and step up with new pledges to lower emissions as the world is running out of time to keep warming below 1.5C.
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#1313362021-11-01
We’re in uncharted territory for the world’s climate, UN says
The climate crisis has driven the planet into “uncharted territory”, with far-reaching repercussions for today’s and future generations, according to the UN World Meteorological Organization. It said the Cop26 summit was a “make-or-break opportunity to put us back on track”.
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#1313372021-11-01
Optimism for Cop26: we must win the climate battle – and we absolutely can
I’ve been covering climate and the environment for 17 years – it’s astonishing to me that so many positive things are happening in response to the crisis.
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#1313382021-11-01
Cop26 summit at serious risk of failure, says Boris Johnson
The Cop26 climate summit is at serious risk of failure because countries are still not promising enough to restrict global temperature rises to below 1.5C, Boris Johnson has warned.
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#1313392021-11-01
Cop26 ‘literally the last chance saloon’ to save planet – Prince Charles
Cop26 is “the last chance saloon” to save the world from runaway climate change, Prince Charles has told world leaders in Rome ahead of the crucial climate summit in Glasgow.
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#1313412021-11-01
COP26: World at one minute to midnight over climate change - Boris Johnson
The world is at "one minute to midnight", having run down the clock on waiting to combat climate change, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. He was speaking as world leaders arrive for the landmark COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.
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#1313422021-11-01
LiveLIVEWorld leaders under pressure to avoid climate catastrophe
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres have been greeting world leaders as they arrive in Glasgow.
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#1313432021-11-01
Cop26 must be about action, not rhetoric, warns Micheál Martin as crucial climate summit begins
Climate change is “without question” the most serious challenge in our lifetime, an existential crisis if it is not tackled with action instead of rhetoric. Those were the words of Taoiseach Micheál Martin as the United Nations Cop26 climate change event in Glasgow began, with world leaders desc ...
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#1313472021-11-01
Māori activist takes centre-stage at COP26 climate change summit
Māori activist for climate and indigenous peoples India Logan-Riley opened the first day reflecting on her first presentation six years ago at the summit.
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#1313512021-11-01
As Climate Summit Begins, Analysts See Risks--and Opportunities--for Investors
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, is the most important climate summit since 2015, when the world agreed to strive to cap global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels--or, better yet, to 1.5 degrees--by substantially reducing greenhouse gas em ...
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#1313532021-11-01
After 30 years of Cop, our ex-environment editor is now optimistic
In September 2006, shortly before the annual UN climate talks to be held that year in Nairobi, Kenya, I looked for hope amid the predictions of ecological collapse and the total failure of countries to act on emissions. It was hard going. The best I could manage was to argue that political, soci ...
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#1313542021-11-01
Rwanda: Kagame Challenges World Leaders on Tackling Climate Change
"This year's G20 is an opportunity to recall that pledge. We need a delivery plan. The world's largest economies contribute almost 80 per cent of worldwide emissions," he said.
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#1313602021-11-01
Heating up: World leaders take center stage at climate talks
It’s time for more than 130 world leaders to feel the heat. They will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about what their country is going to do about the threat of global warming. From U.S. President Joe Biden to Seychelles Presi ...
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#1313622021-11-01
COP26 climate summit opens in Glasgow amid acrimony
World leaders have begun arriving at a United Nations conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of the climate crisis, their challenge made even more daunting by the failure of major industrial nations to agree to ambitious new commitments.
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#1313752021-11-01
Cop26: polling data is overwhelming – people want leaders to act
The world’s nations meeting at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow are tasked with dramatically ramping up action to tackle the climate emergency. But do their citizens back them? And does the UK, as host, have a strong public mandate to act? The evidence from dozens of recent opinion polls is overwhelm ...
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#1313762021-11-01
Hope for a 'eureka' moment on climate change persists as COP26 begins in Scotland
As the UN climate summit began in Scotland, an event billed as the "last, best hope" to save the planet from catastrophic consequences, there were more than enough reasons to feel as gloomy as the Glasgow weather that welcomed delegates.
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#1313782021-11-01
World Leaders to Focus on Climate Change as Major Conference Opens
More than 100 world leaders are gathering for a summit Monday as work begins at a two-week U.N. climate conference, with areas of focus expected to include pledges for emissions targets and funding to help developing nations cope with impacts from climate change.
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#1313792021-11-01
Young activists call Glasgow climate conference 'last chance for humanity'
There are over 8,900 miles separating the African nation of Malawi from the United States. A direct airplane between the two would take an estimated 16 hours, and, as well as physical distance, the lands are also culturally miles apart.
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#1313802021-11-01
‘Time is running out’: your messages for world leaders at Cop26
World leaders must commit to actions rather than promises, renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, and future security rather than present consumption, according to hundreds of messages from Guardian readers and supporters submitted to the Cop26 climate summit.
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#1313872021-11-01
World leaders meet for 'last best chance' COP26 climate talks in Glasgow
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the United Kingdom will commit an additional £1 billion – or $1.368 billion USD – in aid for climate finance by 2025, if Britain's economy grows as forecast.
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#1313882021-11-01
COP26: Stop treating nature ‘like a toilet’, UN boss Antonio Guterres warns world leaders in summit speech
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has thrown his support behind the “climate action army” of activists and protestors as he warned world leaders we must stop treating nature “like a toilet”.
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#1313942021-11-02
7 takeaways from the first day of COP26: Biden's apology, a forests deal and India's net zero pledge
Nearly 120 world leaders gathered in Glasgow on Monday to address what scientists and health experts say is the world's biggest crisis: climate change.
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#1313972021-11-02
COP26: US to stop methane leaks from oil and gas wells
The US is set to announce measures to prevent millions of tonnes of the greenhouse gas methane from entering the atmosphere. The measures will target methane leaking from oil and gas rigs across the US.
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#1314012021-11-02
Cop26: Ireland has no choice but to change to hit climate goals, says Martin
Ireland has no choice but to change due to climate change as the consequences “will catch up with us if we don’t do something,” Taoiseach Micheál Martin said from the the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow on Tuesday.
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#1314102021-11-02
Fact Sheet: COP26 - Children and climate change
UNICEF will be at COP26 to ensure that the climate crisis is recognized as a crisis for children and their rights, to promote approaches to decrease climate risk for those who are most vulnerable, and to support children and young people’s participation in COP26 as part of efforts to support chi ...
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#1314182021-11-02
A guide to COP26 and its most important goals
Over the the next two weeks, the news will be especially environment-focused one as global leaders get together in Glasgow, Scotland, to discuss net-zero goals, carbon markets, and green investments.
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#1314192021-11-02
Putin tells COP26 forest conservation vital to curbing climate change
President Vladimir Putin said it was vital to protect forests to curb climate change and that Russia would draw on its own vast forestland to meet its emissions pledges, speaking in a pre-recorded video broadcast at the COP26 climate talks https://www.reuters.com/business/cop on Tuesday.
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#1314202021-11-02
From Cop26 to GHGs: A guide to climate change terminology
World leaders meeting in Glasgow for the UN Cop26 summit are under pressure to agree a plan of action that will limit the impact of climate change and attempt to keep global heating this century to 1.5 degrees or less.
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#1314232021-11-02
Trudeau takes carbon pricing debate to the global stage at COP26
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pushed the world to have 60 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions covered by a price on pollution in 2030, during a speech at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow on Tuesday.
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#1314242021-11-02
Cop26 live: Biden launches pledge to cut methane by 30%
Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, has told delegates at Cop26 that his trip to space made him realise how “finite and fragile” the Earth is. Bezos said: “I was told that seeing the Earth from space changes the lens from which you view the world. But I was not prepared for just how much that would be ...
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#1314252021-11-02
COP26: Keep track of everything that's been agreed at the climate summit so far
Ending and reversing deforestation, cutting methane emissions, and the journey to net-zero have all been agreed to by world leaders at the crucial Glasgow climate summit so far. You can keep track of all the deals and pledges here.
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#1314262021-11-02
Cop26: 'You might as well bomb us,' says president of Palau – video
The president of the Pacific island state of Palau has told the Cop26 summit that parallels could be drawn between the climate crisis and the traditional Palau story of a boy who grew into a giant and 'wouldn’t stop growing ... depleting all the natural resources'.
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#1314292021-11-02
‘We are digging our own graves’: world leaders’ powerful words at Cop26
Alarm, anger and a few significant promises featured during speeches made by dozens of world leaders as crucial UN climate talks came to life in a cold and wet Glasgow on Monday.
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#1314322021-11-02
Climate change: Five dealmakers who will influence the outcome at COP26
While Greta Thunberg, Sir David Attenborough and world leaders will attract most of the media attention at COP26, the real work of getting 197 countries to commit to changes will fall to lesser-known diplomats and ministers - the negotiators.
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#1314332021-11-02
Cop26 live: focus on finance as Rishi Sunak makes London net zero pledge
The UK’s longest-lasting snow patch, in the Cairngorms in central Scotland, has melted for the eighth time in the past 300 years and the third time in the past five.
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#1314342021-11-03
What happened at Cop26 – day two at a glance
World leaders agree deal to end deforestation, as we reported this morning. Xi Jinping, Jair Bolsonaro and Joe Biden are among the leaders signing the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use.
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#1314352021-11-03
World’s biggest banks to play a role in limiting greenhouse gas emissions
The pledge by more than 450 financial institutions in 45 countries is intended to be one of the top achievements by the UK hosts of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, and comes as some of the other aims of the summit – chiefly, setting the world on a path to limit global heating to 1.5C – are looking ...
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#1314362021-11-03
Cop26: Boris Johnson ‘cautiously optimistic’ about reaching 1.5C deal
Boris Johnson has declared he is “cautiously optimistic” about a deal at Cop26 to keep global temperature rises below 1.5C as he urged China to commit to bringing emissions down by 2025.
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#1314402021-11-03
Tackling climate change: how will the world pay for it?
As we've been reporting, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said developed governments are going to meet their six-year-old promise to send $100 billion (£73bn) a year to developing countries to tackle climate change by 2023, three years behind target.
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#1314442021-11-03
Indian Teen's Powerful Glasgow COP26 Speech. PM Modi, Biden Were Present
A 14-year-old girl from India, speaking at the COP26 in Glasgow, told the world that her generation is "angry and frustrated at world leaders who've made empty promises" and made a direct call to action to save the planet.
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#1314452021-11-03
7 takeaways from COP26 Day 2: Biden slams Xi and Putin, a methane agreement and a deal on steel
he mood in Glasgow was optimistic on Tuesday as world leaders wrapped up their high-level summit at the COP26 climate conference. Several major announcements brightened the outlook on whether the meeting can achieve meaningful results.
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#1314472021-11-03
‘A continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26
As world leaders inside the Cop26 conference centre in Glasgow boasted about pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions and end deforestation, indigenous delegates gathered across the river Clyde to commemorate activists killed for trying to protect the planet from corporate greed and government ...
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#1314552021-11-03
World Focus Turns to Big Finance in Climate Fight: COP26 Update
The COP26 summit will turn its attention to the finance industry’s contribution to the fight against climate change, with announcements overnight revealing that banks, asset managers and insurers representing more than $130 trillion have now signed up to net-zero commitments.
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#1314592021-11-03
As politicians exit COP26, $130tn worth of financiers take the stage
With national leaders gone from the U.N. climate conference in Scotland, attention turned on Wednesday to the state treasuries and the businesses and financiers responsible for carrying out the pledges to cut emissions and build infrastructure.
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#1314602021-11-03
Biden plays up positives but frustrations apparent after Cop26 talks
Joe Biden returned to the US in the pre-dawn gloom on Wednesday to a climate agenda still held in frustrating limbo by Congress, following his high-profile cameo at crunch UN climate talks in Scotland that was heavy on dire warnings but light on deep cuts to planet-heating emissions.
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#1314622021-11-03
COP26: Can countries be forced to meet net zero targets? And more questions
The COP26 climate summit is under way in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming. BBC News Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris and environment correspondent Matt McGrath answer some of your questions.
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#1314652021-11-03
'We are not equal' - what they said at U.N. climate talks
COP 26, a U.N. conference critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change, is running for the first two weeks of November.
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#1314662021-11-03
Cop26 live: world ‘heading for 1.9C of heating’, climate model projects
Rayner brings up the subject of cuts to development aid, which are hampering the climate efforts of poor countries. The government has received a lot of criticism for these cuts, and representatives from developing nations have said the UK is setting a bad example to other countries as Cop26 pre ...